Quotes from Rodney Frelinghuysen

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.

I think fundraising has a lot to do with political viability.

The focus is on the Middle East, so there are a lot of eyes on the battlefield. But there are other things that are happening around the world, in Northern Africa, things happen in the Southern Hemisphere and in Central and South America.

Democrats get credit for money coming into the state, but I do a lot of heavy lifting.

I personally feel all guns ought to be registered.

To me, the New Jersey law enforcement community, and many other Americans, one of the biggest impediments to improved relations between the United States and Cuba is the continued safe haven provided to the fugitive, Joanne Chesimard.

If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

I'm pleased about representing any portion of Montclair.

The Keystone pipeline is one of those things that's sort of a political driver. And mostly, the Republicans use it to sort of embarrass the president and embarrass quite a few Democrats who feel that there's a potential for an environmental disaster.

I operate on the assumption that as a member of Congress, presently, I represent everybody - Republicans, Democrats, independents and, yes, some people who don't care to participate.

I think it's important Republicans be in the majority so, like my Democratic counterparts, I give to the party.

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey residents and business are continuing the hard work of recovery.

We need the cooperation of the Pakistanis. If we don't have any, we lose insight into the actions of those who would do our country harm.

It is important to give commuters greater, more reliable mass transit options and... great potential to get cars off of I-80 and eliminate other daily traffic jams in northern New Jersey.

This corridor is important to national security and important to the whole Northeast. So it's not just our own New Jersey transportation needs: it's the whole rail corridor here we're talking about.

New Jersey has more Superfund sites than other state in the nation, but considerable progress has been made.

We were the group that built the roads by day that the Vietcong traveled at night.

I can remember when President Nixon basically said, 'All troops have been withdrawn from the delta.' And I said, 'Wait, I'm still here.'

I'm fiscally conservative but socially moderate. A moderate Republican - there just aren't many of us left.

To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.

I don't think we need a Washington-imposed solution.

Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.

When the USS New Jersey is commissioned, it will be a source of pride for everyone in our state for decades.